Senate confirms Mike Pompeo as 70th secretary of state
The Senate has confirmed Mike Pompeo as the 70th secretary of state by a 57-42 vote.
Six Democrats and one Independent voted to confirm Pompeo: Heitkamp, Donnelly, Manchin, McCaskill, Jones, Nelson, and King (I).
Every Republican supported his confirmation, with the exception of Sen. John McCain who is still in Arizona battling brain cancer and was not present for the vote.
Pompeo faced unprecedented opposition to his becoming the nation’s top diplomat – many Democrats who just last year voted to confirm him as CIA director publicly opposed him as the next secretary of state. More at: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-confirms-mike-pompeo-70th-secretary-state/story?id=54755111
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